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Countering Violent Extremism as ISIS Threat Expands Washington Week with The Atlantic

Premiered February 20, 2015
Countering Violent Extremism as ISIS Threat Expands

This Week, ISIS expanded its reach to North Africa where 21 Egyptian Christians were beheaded. At the same time, the White House held a violent extremism summit where President Obama rejected calling the group “Islamic.” The Daily Beast's Nancy Youssef and POLITICO's Michael Crowley report on the group's expansion and why the words used to describe ISIS fighters really matters.

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